Month: June 2013

Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Suicide Club by Park Square Theatre

What’s the business of the Suicide Club?  “Death,” stentorily intones Mr. George (in a terrific performance by James Cada), with equal parts grinning euphoria and stern reverence. Ah, yes.  Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Suicide Club (at Park…

War Horse at the Orpheum Theatre

World War One, aka the Great War.  Unrelenting sordidness, a sea of blood seeping into endless mud, no-man’s-land stretching for hundreds of miles, forty plus million human beings killed or maimed, a whole generation lost.  No heroes, no real villains. …

Clybourne Park at the Guthrie Theater

It is lucky that Jim Lichtscheidl gives such a rich and multi-layered performance in the first act (set in 1959) of Clybourne Park (at the Guthrie, through August 4).  His Karl is a despicable toad and playwright Bruce Norris fills…